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[–] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

Photographer: Okay what screams childhood? Hmmm. Pioneer wagon wheel…and MASSIVE cigarettes.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And in the 80s if a kid asked to bum a cig, people would give him one.

[–] lewis@lem.social 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Now they just ask if you've got a cable they can charge their vape with

[–] odium@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] swab148@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago

I carry spares around, just in case.

[–] teft@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago

When your stepmother smokes Camels and you get used as a subtle jab in the divorce.

[–] Relo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think that sometimes huge props are used in movies or commercials. Maybe this was once used in a Malboro ad...

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Quite possibly. 80s portrait photos did have some odd backgrounds though.

[–] bender@insaneutopia.com 2 points 2 years ago

His mother sent him to the store with a note saying its ok that he buy them and that the smokes are for her.

[–] yoz@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No decade since then has had such a personality as the 80s did. They were truly a magical era of child neglect and poor parenting.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

At least there was Atari/Nintendo and home computers already. I'd hate to have been born in the 70s and earlier. Sounds boring as fuck for a kid.

[–] downpunxx@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A famous man named Dennis Hopper once said "The 90's are gonna make the 80's seem like the 50's" and he was right

[–] lewis@lem.social 1 points 2 years ago

26ish years and we're back in the 50s

[–] meltylikecheese@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Joseph Gribble